Purposes+of+Assessment

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“Not everything that counts can be counted. Not everything that can be counted, counts.” (Alison Wolf, British academic and assessment expert)

All assessment should: • evaluate what students can achieve • motivate and set targets • provide information for future use • assess the abilities/skills we want to assess and not something else • have a positive impact on learning • provide meaningful results • have a clear purpose • have expectations that are fully understood by the learner • provide opportunity to demonstrate the learners depth of knowledge

